Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Midnight Children", was stabbed in the neck during an event in New York. The attack happened when he was getting ready to deliver a lecture. Rushdie, 75, who suffered years of death threats after the controversial book titled "The Satanic Verses" was stabbed several times by a man on stage while he was being introduced at the event of the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, New York police said.
A video posted online shows attendees rushing onto the stage immediately following the incident. The attacker is said to have been restrained by those on the scene.
Rushdie's condition is not currently known.